...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Peggy's priorities: Doyenne of CanLit, revered author Margaret Atwood (Peggy to her intimates) has been speaking her mind lately--and how--about the perils of cutting funding to the arts, condemning the philistine leader who would dare foist such an outrageous policy on us. About the peril to the arts and expression in general posed by the Supreme Court-sanctioned absence of free speech in the land, and the maintenance of "correct thinking" via a powerful and egregiously well-funded "anti-hate"/pro-censorship nomenklatura, alas, the novelist/poet/essayist/literay critical has remained strangely, indeed, steadfastly silent.

Anyone care to venture an opinion as to why that might be?

Posted by: scaramouche at 14:00 | link | comments (3)

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#1  07 October 2008 - 14:34

 

Multi-culti suffused dhimmitude?

Anonymous

#2  07 October 2008 - 14:50

 

As good an explation as any, I'd say. Maybe we could add "a soupcon of terminal lefty cluelessness."

scaramouche

#3  07 October 2008 - 19:20

 

Naahh,

Peggy is just the ultimate cynical player: the tiny cut to a specific sector of the "arts" industry effects her kind of people; therefore it must be resisted, whatever the unfair competition of subsidizing novelists to the many writers who will never get a public dime; however it just those same unsubsidized writers who are at risk of being hauled into the HRC for not being part of the anointed class and having all the wrong ideas. Those with the right ideas get the grants. It's pretty clear.

Anonymous

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